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London, United Kingdom (1981 – present)
She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive!.Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing The Fall, The Members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club (also known as Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club) with Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn and Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his song
New Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, Urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released Europa And The Pirate Twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders. His most distinctive session credit is that keyboard line after the chorus on foreigner’s Waiting For A Girl Like You.
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"Thomas Dolby added the synthesizer part. I had a lot of respect for his musicality and his creativeness." - Lou Gramm of Foreigner tells us about the writing and recording of the track that had the greatest impact on his career, "Waiting For A Girl Like You": http://www.songfacts.com/blog/playingmysong/lou_gramm_-_waiting_for_a_girl_like_you_/
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Luffbucket
"Close But No Cigar" is a great great song, and sadly underrated.
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zen-concrete
Here's full album http://megurorecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-tokyo-2012 if anyone's interested. You can listen to and then buy.
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d0l
and i can take the look you give me, believe me
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theloniusfunk
Will be catching him tomorrow night in SF, and second time seeing him. Hope he plays "Field Work" and "Windpower"
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kungfulasers
Flawless performance in Seattle.
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Hakubi
Just saw him live. He was awesome. :D
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SCIENCE!
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perkoch
mmmm, the master of intelligent pop....
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JAMOOL
new album is great!!!
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Kaoru_is_here
Just grabbed the new album out of my mailbox!
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LypeRadel
she blinded me with SCIENCE.. tu tu tu!
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MadThrasher678
I Love You Goodbye is underrated into submission [2]
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LenaBeamish
Anyone else think the list of Similar Artists is way off?
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posthuman2003
genius
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If you're playing his game, I created a last.fm group: http://www.last.fm/group/A%2520Map%2520of%2520the%2520Floating%2520City?ac=floating%20city
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carloscandi3
interesting gig last thursday. long delay due to tech problems but us audience were forgiven. all the hits and favourites, airwaves was nice and spice train sounds good.
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alexia_N
Over a million plays? Finally. Wow, Bill Nelson is a similar artist? That's really cool lol.
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funnyPHANTOM
Dolby has always been a musical genius.
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